Comparison of Volkswagen Emission Scandal and Samsung Battery Recall

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Stakeholders involved and how they were affected........................................................................2
Ethical, legal, accounting corporate governance issues...................................................................3
How the issues occurred?............................................................................................................3
Similarities between the scandals?..............................................................................................4
Comparison:.....................................................................................................................................4
Between Enron & Samsung Battery Recall (Similarity and difference).....................................4
Between Enron & Volkswagen (Similarity and difference)........................................................5
Improvements and Changes.............................................................................................................6
Conclusion & Recommendation......................................................................................................7
Reference.........................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
The discussion is about Volkswagen (VW) emission scandal which mainly deals with the
internal scandal that has been dented with the integrity of the company (Strittmatter et al., 2017).
The company had been equipped with the different varieties of the diesel vehicles that comply
with the U.S. emission standards, every diesel car manufacturer tends to focus on handling the
software installation in the car to clean the exhaust of the diesel.
The other case is about Samsung Battery Recall that focus on handling the effective strategy to
steal some market share. Here, the reports are about media attention citing some faults in the
batteries. Here, the focus is on the supply chain and the other battery manufacturers. The major
effect of the issues came in Galaxy Note 7 after launching well-received smartphone. The sales
have halted globally after the issue of battery explosion (Raja, 2016).
Stakeholders involved and how they were affected
For the VW, the stakeholders in this case include any customer who has been affected by the
policies, company and the other people who invest in the same. The scandal has highlighted the
extent which includes the customers, employees, dealers, shareholders and the other auto-
manufacturers. They have been mainly affected in a large number ranging from loss of jobs, and
then leading to change in stock market, environmental issues and tarnished reputations (Tse et
al., 2017). After the scandal that went public, VW has been trying to work on taking steps to
correct the issues with the ability to cope up with the damage done to the image.
In Samsung case, the customers who were loyal had to face a big shock as they were affected by
their poor decisions. Samsung SGI was the min supplier as they will not be able to regain the